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1) Boy Erased
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jared, the son of a Baptist preacher, is forcibly outed by his parents and forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program.
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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SUPERSTAR IN A HOUSEDRESS examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite superstar Jackie Curtis who was a poet, playwright, performer, and one of the great personalities of his time.
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Albuquerque’s Rusty Tidenberg, auto mechanic and drag-racing aficionado, shocked friends and family by coming out as trans. Followed for eight years by filmmaker Harrod Blank (son of Les Blank), Rusty guides us through the aftermath of her transition, as growing acceptance among her straight-talking Southwest community still doesn’t ease her romantic and professional woes. Interwoven with lively tales of gender non-conforming individuals on the...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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One record producer, the creators of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” and top indie rock artists come together to create a tribute album benefiting the Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of the Harvey Milk High School—the first accredited high school in the country for LGBTQ youth. Produced in association with Sundance Channel, “FOLLOW MY VOICE: WITH THE MUSIC OF HEDWIG” weaves the compelling, courageous stories of four students at this controversial...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A love story about legendary sexploitation director Joe Sarno and his wife & collaborator Peggy, as they strive to get a last dirty movie made in an industry that's forgotten his sublime auteur style amongst the dominance of hardcore porn.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Phong grew up in a small town in the center of Vietnam – the youngest of six children. From the time he was a young boy, Phong felt like he was a girl with a mismatched boy’s body. Not until he moved to Hanoi to attend university at age twenty did Phong discover that he was not the only one in the world with this predicament. His dream to “find himself” by physically changing sex becomes a reality several years later. The movie follows Phong’s...
7) Drag Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Four preteen drag queens come together for the biggest performance of their young lives. As they prepare for the big show, they struggle to claim a place of their own on the fringes of a fringe culture. Official Selection at the **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.**
8) Beauty
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In a world of fixed positions and prescribed roles, expanding the definition of gender requires the courage to dive deep into understanding and acceptance. Christina Willings’ documentary BEAUTY explores the lives of five gender-creative kids, each uniquely engaged in shaping their ideas of what it means to be fully human. Claiming your own sense of gender when everything around you insists that you comply and conform can be challenging, and sometimes...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
With searing urgency, WELCOME TO CHECHNYA shadows a group of activists who risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ purge raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic.
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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"IN FULL BLOOM: TRANSCENDING GENDER" follows the courageous journey of thirteen transgender and two gay actors as they transform their lives through the use of monologue, dialogue and performance art while preparing for the world premiere of the original stage play, Lovely Bouquet of Flowers: An Exploration of Non-Traditional Gender Voices, written by Jazzmun Nichcala Crayton and David Hays Gaddas. Behind-the-scenes, rehearsal and performance footage...
11) What Sex Am I?
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Academy Award winner Lee Grant's groundbreaking "WHAT SEX AM I?" follows a group of Transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, "WHAT SEX AM I?"
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Filmmaker Agustina Comedi delves into her father Jaime’s past. The reconstruction of his intimate life as a father, undress a clandestine past; not only that of a political activist, but also that of a gay man. Before getting married to Agustina’s mother, Jaime had been in a relationship with another man for more than 10 years. In Catholic Argentina of the ’80s, Jaime’s true nature was a family secret. SILENCE IS A FALLING BODY is narrated...
14) Of Love and Law
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Openly gay life partners Fumi and Kazu run a small law firm in downtown Osaka, Japan. Through their life and work, we see a snapshot of Japan in transition — a country where collective unity is absolute and often maintained at the expense of individual rights and freedom.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (59 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This hard-hitting documentary reveals the abuse suffered by the gay community all over the world. France, despite having legalized gay marriage in 2013, has seen a rise in homophobic violence in recent years. In Tunisia, gay people can be sentenced to three years in prison, simply for their sexual orientation. When arrested by the police, they are subject to an “anal examination”, a humiliating procedure of no scientific value. Uganda is one of...
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
P.S. BURN THIS LETTER PLEASE explores a demi-monde that would have been lost to time were it not for the chance find of a treasure trove of letters in a storage bin in LA. Written by drag queens all using aliases to a friend (who turns out to be famous and revealed at the end) who moved to LA, the film is a voyage of discovery of the irreverence, fun, kinship, and all manner of illicit activity which made up the drag scene in the late 50’s in NYC....
17) Vision Portraits
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
VISION PORTRAITS is a deeply personal documentary by award-winning filmmaker Rodney Evans (BROTHER TO BROTHER) as he explores how his loss of vision may impact his creative future, and what it means to be a blind or visually impaired creative artist. It’s a celebration of the possibilities of art created by a Manhattan photographer (John Dugdale), a Bronx-based dancer (Kayla Hamilton), a Canadian writer (Ryan Knighton) and the filmmaker himself,...
18) Deep in Vogue
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (63 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This documentary celebrates the colorful, queer, emotional and political stories of Northern Vogue and its people.
19) Uncle Howard
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An Award Winning Sundance documentary, Uncle Howard is an intertwining tale of past and present, the story of filmmaker Howard Brookner whose work captured the cultural revolution of late 70’s and early 80’s downtown NYC – and his nephew’s personal journey 25 years later to discover his uncle’s films and the legacy of a life cut short by the plague of AIDS.
20) Born to Be
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
BORN TO BE follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting (he/him) at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. There, for the first time ever in New York City, transgender and gender non-binary people have access to quality gender-affirming care. With extraordinary access, this remarkable documentary offers an intimate look at how one doctor’s work impacts the lives of his patients as well as how his journey from renowned plastic...
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